HIGHLIGHTED MUSIC NEWS OF THE WEEK

Ever tried to relax after a stressful day by putting on some music - a little Mozart, some gentle jazz - or perhaps a little Natalie Imbruglia? Well, now a start-up tech company says it is proving that the right playlist can have medical benefits.

ABBA new music will be released in 2021, confirms Björn Ulvaeus, who says the band is really united right now.

Sir Tom Jones yesterday smashed a record set by Bob Dylan to become the oldest male to top the UK album charts.

Sir Tom Jones knew he'd hit "the big time" before a Cilla Black concert when fangirls shred his raincoat to pieces.

Queen were so heavily in debt before the release of 1975's A Night At The Opera, they would have been forced to split if the album had not been a success.

Sir Paul McCartney was "shocked in a very pleasant way" by the contributions to 'McCartney III Imagined'.

Get your tissues ready. In a new trailer for the upcoming documentary Cher & The Loneliest Elephant, the iconic singer shares the emotional story of Kaavan and what moved her to help fight for his release.

Sony Music Publishing announced Wednesday that it acquired Paul Simon’s entire song catalog, which spans his six-decade music career.

Communication between the brain’s auditory and reward circuits is the reason why humans find music rewarding, according to new research published in JNeurosci.

Sophia, a robot designed by Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics who holds Saudi Arabian citizenship (no, really), shocked the usually unshockable art world last week by selling an NFT for 8,888.

"Did You Know That" columnist Curt Eriksmoen continues the story of the singer-songwriter and Minnesota native who spent a summer trying to play music in Fargo. He eventually, of course, ended up in New York City and found mainstream success through his records.

On Sunday March 28, Swedish group Roxette celebrate the 30th anniversary of their third album “Joyride” – the much anticipated follow-up to the band’s spectacular 1989 global break-through “Look Sharp!”.

"Saylists" are being launched on Apple Music to help young people with speech-sound disorders.

Tina Turner discussed the years of horrific abuse she endured during her marriage to Ike Turner as she bade farewell to her legions of fans in a new documentary.

The soul music icon says she is legally entitled to her master recordings, referencing Prince in her tweets

A study of “800 top songs from 2012-2019” finds that less than 23 percent of artists and less than 2 percent of producers were women

Ottens, who also had a hand in developing the CD, helped revolutionize music consumption in the early 1960s

On Tuesday, the country singer Dolly Parton received “a dose of her own medicine,” a shot of the Moderna vaccine

When Barry "Bazza" Morris took up music lessons at 84, he wasn't searching for fame. But the now 88-year-old, who is blind and deaf, has amassed a cult following since uploading an original song and film clip to YouTube called Barry's Isolation Blues.

"Every genre that is born from America has Black roots," says music journalist and podcast host Sidney Madden.